Comment on Hexbear federation megathread
Rockyrikoko@lemm.ee 1 year agoI would hope a general goal for anyone is to strive for honest conversations while suppressing propaganda and disinformation, regardless of the source
Comment on Hexbear federation megathread
Rockyrikoko@lemm.ee 1 year agoI would hope a general goal for anyone is to strive for honest conversations while suppressing propaganda and disinformation, regardless of the source
GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Despite its connotations, propaganda is denotatively a value-neutral term, it is the “propagation” of ideas or views. It mostly gets used as a sleightofhand in the fashion of “our informative journalism; their insidious propaganda”. If something is misinformation, call it misinformation. If it is manipulative use of an incomplete truth, call it that. Don’t use extremely vague words that can be used to smuggle in an arbitrary number of tacit assumptions.